From the book
The Navigating HRDD companion
If the Resources note in Navigating Human Rights Due Diligence sent you here, this is the page it meant. The templates, checklists and crosswalk that accompany the book live here as six free PDFs.
4 pages, free
Compliance Checklist Pack
The core obligations of the CSDDD, the German LkSG and the French Duty of Vigilance Law, as three working audits with columns for status, evidence and remedial action. Run each against the documents you actually hold rather than the policy you intend to write. Includes the post-Omnibus scope note, so you can tell your board what changed in law and what did not change in the market.
Download the Checklist Pack (PDF)2 pages, free
Standards Crosswalk
Every recurring due diligence obligation pin-cited across six frameworks at once: the UN Guiding Principles, the OECD Guidelines, the CSDDD, the LkSG, the French Loi de Vigilance, and the IFC Performance Standards with the Equator Principles. Read it by row to place one obligation in every regime, by column to answer one auditor, lender or supervisory authority.
Download the Crosswalk (PDF)3 pages, free
Risk Assessment Template Set
The three instruments that turn a value chain into a prioritized list of places to look: country screening across six public indices converted onto one scale, the supplier risk questionnaire with its follow-up triggers, and the site-level checklist with the worker interview questions that matter more than anything you will be shown. Mapping is where the first damages award under the French law was won.
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Stakeholder Engagement Planning Kit
The mapping and planning templates behind meaningful engagement as Article 13 and the UNGPs define it. The mapping template separates rightsholders from stakeholders and forces a priority that follows severity and vulnerability. The plan template commits each group to a method, a frequency, a named owner and an output, which is what an assessor can actually check.
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Grievance Mechanism Tools
Intake fields, a case tracking template, and a self-assessment against each of the eight UNGP 31 effectiveness criteria with space for the evidence behind every rating. This is the compliance layer of a mechanism: what a regulator or a lender will ask to see. Building the mechanism itself is the subject of a separate volume.
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Implementation Roadmap
The five-step build with activities, responsible functions, outputs and indicative timing, set against the regulatory clock as it now stands: the June 2024 adoption, the March 2026 Omnibus, the national law moving independently of Brussels, and the single application date of 26 July 2029. Plus the sequencing warning about starting at step four.
Download the Roadmap (PDF)How to use them
Start with the checklist pack against the three regimes that reach you, and be honest in the Status column: an item is complete only where you could hand a supervisory authority the document named beside it. The gaps that survive that test are your programme. The roadmap then sequences them, and the crosswalk lets you answer a lender, a customer and an auditor from one body of work instead of three.
They are free to use in your own organization and with your own clients. Please keep the attribution. They are working templates, not legal advice: the provisions they cite have to be read in full and applied with qualified counsel.
Beyond the book
The book itself works through the regimes, the DIHR assessment methodology and the case law these instruments compress. The HRDD readiness diagnostic scores your current programme in about ten minutes, and Social Accord Architecture is the discipline that turns these obligations into agreements that hold.